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Hertta-Maria Amutenja Between 2022 and 2023, the Namibian Police recorded 187 cases of human trafficking. This was revealed by Namibian Police’s Crime Investigations Coordinator in Ohangwena, Deputy Commissioner Zacharias Amakali on Friday at the observance of World Day Against Trafficking (TIP) in persons at the Oshikango Border Post in the Ohangwena Region. Amakali said the…
July 30 is the United Nations’ World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. The theme for this year is “Reach every victim of trafficking, leave no one behind.” Our sister panelists shared what their congregations are doing to eliminate this grave offense against human dignity by responding to the question: What have you or your congregation…
Portuguese maritime police investigate one of two sites where hundreds of human trafficking victims, mostly migrants from Southeast Asia, were found near Lisbon June 21, 2023. (OSV News photo/Miguel Pereira, Reuters) LONDON (OSV News) — Human trafficking doesn’t happen only in far away places where human rights are neglected. It happens around the corner. It’s…
Here is our recorded meeting link and chat notes for our July 2023 TC 5 Stones meeting! Our 5 Stones meeting this July consisted of some law enforcement updates and a presentation by Landon Dickeson, MS, LPC, Executive Director of Ranch Hands Rescue as he discussed the trafficking of boys and other overlooked populations. Here is the link…
It has been 23 years since the federal government first passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Since then, the global anti-trafficking community has learned much about who is vulnerable to exploitation, traffickers’ business models, what drives the demand and how the problem is evolving in the digital age. While we have moved past many harmful…
Police and community agencies in York Region are raising awareness about the dangers of human trafficking. A human trafficking awareness event was set up at the Central York Fire Services station in …
When undocumented clients come into Mayra Rodriguez-Alvarez’s office, they discover quickly why she calls herself “the nosy lawyer.” After becoming interested in human trafficking in 2022, the Hammond immigration attorney made it a mission of hers to determine whether her clients are also being trafficked, she told a room of more than 200 during the…
People within the New Jersey prison system are required to work, and although the 13th Amendment eliminated slavery in the most basic sense, the idea of involuntary servitude is still allowed as …
Trafficking and exploitation: how countries rank The Global Slavery Index, which includes forced marriage, ranks North Korea the worst: More than 1 in 10 people are estimated to be in conditions of modern slavery. In Eritrea, about 9 in 100 people are estimated to be modern slaves. About 3 in 100 people in Mauritania are…
A popular laundry soap made by prisoners is being sold online at more than three times the list price after production fell due to novel coronavirus restrictions on prison work. Officials believe that scalpers are buying the soap in bulk to make a killing through resale. The Blue Stick soap, billed as a “superstar stain…
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